Comments on: Designed environments as learning systems http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/02/11/designed-environments-as-learning-systems/ Using design to influence behaviour Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:53:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: None of 3 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/02/11/designed-environments-as-learning-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-355860 None of 3 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:59:41 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=592#comment-355860 I see lots of blog posts in Google News search, and, less commonly, web forum posts in Google Groups search. My guess is that Google detects blogs and forums when it spiders the web and treats them as news and as groups, respectively, which makes a fair amount of sense. With blogs, it's likely the presence of an rss feed that does it. This site has two. Most blogs have at least one. Check what's hitting your feeds and you're likely to find that some Google crawler has subscribed to them, along with however-many humans. Forums tend to have recognizable structure to them that can be heuristically identified by bots. (Spambots have historically tended to do so!) If it refers you more traffic, I don't think there's cause for complaint. Obscurity is the thing to worry about, not "unauthorized use" which usually simply means <i>unexpected</i> use. I see lots of blog posts in Google News search, and, less commonly, web forum posts in Google Groups search. My guess is that Google detects blogs and forums when it spiders the web and treats them as news and as groups, respectively, which makes a fair amount of sense.

With blogs, it’s likely the presence of an rss feed that does it. This site has two. Most blogs have at least one. Check what’s hitting your feeds and you’re likely to find that some Google crawler has subscribed to them, along with however-many humans.

Forums tend to have recognizable structure to them that can be heuristically identified by bots. (Spambots have historically tended to do so!)

If it refers you more traffic, I don’t think there’s cause for complaint. Obscurity is the thing to worry about, not “unauthorized use” which usually simply means unexpected use.

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]]> By: Nicole Caverta http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/02/11/designed-environments-as-learning-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-350129 Nicole Caverta Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:37:30 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=592#comment-350129 Did you know your posts show up in Google News search? Did you know your posts show up in Google News search?

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